Francis Davey wrote:
> I don't think they have taken such advice (please point me to any you
> know about).

One would assume the Ordnance Survey have taken legal advice on their 
OpenSpace, which appears to state that point based derivation from an OS 
map would belong to the OS:
http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/faq.html sections 2.1 
and 2.2; and 
http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/developeragreement.html 
has their definition of Derived Data which includes "any Data created by 
You or an End User identifying the location or other attribute of any 
new feature directly using Our mapping".

I did misunderstand your previous email (obviously if you used Google 
maps search to look up a postcode, then clicked on the map, I imagine 
that would be a worse position), and I do agree with what you say (my 
postbox locating thing revolves around a presumably similar issue).

ATB,
Matthew

> If I use a map to find somewhere (which may not be a point marked on
> the map of course) and extract (by measurement - which is what
> clicking on an image will do) a lat/long coordinate, that action does
> not involve the copying of the map in any way or making a derived work
> even if I do this lots and lots and lots of times.


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